After Aishwarya Rai in "Bride & Prejudice", Gurinder Chadha is all set to direct Hollywood star Kate Hudson in the blockbuster adaptation of the hit American serial "I Dream of Jeannie".

Chadha, whose 'Big Bollywood Homage' to Jane Austen in "Bride & Prejudice" met with mixed responses in India and Britain, is ready for her first full-fledged Hollywood film. "And that too a $75 million blockbuster... I hope to keep M. Night Shyamalan company in the Hollywood blockbuster studio system," Chadha joked from Britain where she was supervising the shooting of husband Paul Berges' "Mistress Of Spices" with Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott.

Chadha's next directorial project is an arabesque fantasy.

"It's an adaptation of the hit American serial 'I Dream Of Jeannie', about a feisty girl from 200 BC who gets turned into a genie, is put in a bottle by an evil king and is hurled into space where 2,000 years later she crashes into a NASA astronaut and ends up on Cocoa beach in Miami. I've finalised Kate Hudson to play Jeannie. We start shooting this summer in the US and Canada," she tells from London.

Excited about the prospect of going into a completely new and far more lavish area of filmmaking, Gurinder revealed that this large-screen adaptation of the hit series would take the main character to her beginnings.

"You could say my film begins before the serial. We chose Kate Hudson after zeroing in on a handful of big names. Kate conveys the vivacity, mystery and magic of the main character... qualities that Kate has probably inherited from her lovely mom Goldie Hawn."

"I Dream Of Jeannie" is being designed as a full-blown Hollywood blockbuster. Said Chadha: "Thank god 'Bride & Prejudice' has been so well received in the US. It opened with a huge $12,000 screen average, which is comparable with the week's number one film 'Hitch' (featuring Will Smith). Apart from the New York Times, we've received uniformly favourable reviews in the US."

Gurinder was also gung-ho about Aishwarya Rai's new screen avatar. "After 'Bride & Prejudice', Ash has gone into totally different territory in 'Mistress Of Spices'. We wrapped up the first week's shooting on Feb 19 here in London. And the rushes are looking amazing.

"My husband and our cinematographer Santosh Sivan are creating magic on camera. And Ash looks and acts completely different from 'Bride & Prejudice'. Paul is making a supremely sensual film with evocative performances by Ash, Dylan and Nitin Ganetra."

She added: "Preparing 'Mistress...' in the UK, promoting 'Bride & Prejudice' in the US and putting together 'Jeannie...' Gosh, I'm exhausted! After directing Ash I'm looking forward to doing interesting things with Kate Hudson."